Suzanne Ouedraogo

Suzanne Ouedraogo

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Prologue

Suzanne Ouedraogo is a self-taught artist. Searching for freedom she discovered painting, which changed her life to date completely. The former secretary started painting lessons in the Foundation Olorun, together with her colleague Marie-Blanche Ouedraogo. Up to this day, Suzanne und Marie-Blanche are the only well known woman paintresses in Burkina Faso.

In her paintings Suzanne not only wants to show the beautiful sides of live, but likewise the dark abyss human nature can develope, the fears und the desires.

Suzanne was brought up with animals, her father being a veterinary surgeon. "Hence, there are always animals that come to my mind when I reach for the paint brush, however, I do not think all the time of the bloodthirsty, untameble beast of the wild.

In most of my paintings you will find a creature, half human and half animal. With these mythical creatures I not only want to point at the animal character of the human but also at the consubstantiality of human and animal."

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Biography

was Born on 10th of October 1975 in Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso

Suzanne received her art training from various painters and in several workshops and symposiums:

1996-1998	Education at the Foundation Olorun in Quagadougou Workshop " Design and Painting " with Pierre Leloup (director of the School of Arts in Chambery, France) in Quagadougou Symposium "de peinture et de sculpture sur barriques" à Ouagadougou Training at the studio of Soly Cissé, painter and sculptor a Dakar (Senegal)


Participation in exhibitions in Burkina Faso
1997	"Art and Solidarity" Foundation Olorun, Ouagadougou Centre Culturel Français "Georges Méliés", Ouagadougou
1998	"Des Elles de Femmes" Centre Culturel Français "Georges Méliés", Ouagadougou "Les grands frères et les petits frères" au Centre Culturel Français "Georges Méliés", Ouagadougou "Woman and Art" Foundation Olorun, Ouagadougou
1999	Galery ZAKA, Ougadougou

Participations in exhibitions abroad
1997	Galery Arcane 21, Sauve (France)
1999	La Venerie, Watermael-Boitsfort/Brussels (Belgium) "Alte Papierfabrik" in Ebertsheim (Germany) Citibank Duisburg (Germany)
2000	Internationales Zentrum (IZ), Duisburg (Germany) Hessian Parliament, Wiesbaden (Germany) Tanzhaus nrw die werkstatt, Düsseldorf (Germany)
2001	"Espace Noriac", Limoges (France) Sparkasse Essen-Rüttenscheid (Germany) Wohnstift Augustinum, Essen (Germany) Citibank Krefeld (Germany)
2002	KuBa Kunsthalle, Wolfenbüttel (Germany)
2003	Orangerie, Grugapark Essen (Germany) Viterra Energy Services GmbH & Co.KG, Münster (Germany)

Individual exhibition
1999	ATISS Gallery in Dakar (Senegal)

Study Trips
1998	Republic of Benin Final Exposition "Open Studio" in Cotonou
1999	Swizzerland Final Exposition in Basel

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